Senior Product Owner

The role

You will own and prioritise complex product backlogs for a specialised capability in WPP Open. You will turn product strategy into epics, user stories and acceptance criteria, and lead delivery with engineering and design teams.

What you will do

• Own and manage complex or high-impact product backlogs for your product capability
• Drive execution of the product roadmap into epics, user stories and acceptance criteria
• Define measurable outcomes for each initiative and track progress
• Refine requirements with engineering and design and identify technical dependencies
• Act as the source of truth for the development team on product requirements
• Orchestrate the agile team and resolve impediments
• Facilitate agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, backlog refinement and sprint reviews
• Gather stakeholder and user feedback and analyse product performance data
• Champion post-launch optimisation of features
• Act as informal mentor to less experienced Product Owners or Product Analysts

Required qualifications

• 4+ years of progressive experience in product ownership or a similar role
• Proven track record of driving complex product features from definition to launch and beyond
• Ability to own, manage and prioritise complex or high-impact product backlogs
• Deep domain expertise in a critical product capability
• Strong understanding and practical experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)
• Ability to translate product strategy into epics, user stories and acceptance criteria
• Ability to influence cross-functional development teams
• Strong analytical mindset using data and user feedback
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences
• Track record of delivering features from concept to release in multiple sprints

Nice to have

• Agile certification (e.g., CSPO, SAFe PO/PM)

Benefits

• Passionate, inspired colleagues
• Scale and opportunity to work on projects at an unparalleled industry scale
• Challenging and stimulating work with a group of creative problem solvers

Before you apply

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About the company

WPP is a growth partner for leading brands, combining media intelligence, data, creativity, production, enterprise solutions and strategic counsel across 100+ markets. WPP Open is its agentic marketing platform and unified product ecosystem.